| Tommy Støckel, In My Mind This Goes On Forever, 2012, image: Tensta Konsthall |
This exhibition examines the abstract from multiple perspectives: formal, economic, and the contemporary artist’s “withdrawal strategies”––a manipulation of already existing spaces in order to create a “space apart” from the rest of society. More »
| Christian Saldert, The Politics of the Unpolitical, 2011, image: Christian Saldert |
Only a little by way of explanation is provided about the artist Christian Saldert on his site or on Galleri Kleerup’s site representing him or his recent digital-poetic solo exhibition “Bodies of the Unreal” inspired by found, appropriated web images of American nudists from the mid-twentieth century. More »
| Annika Larsson, Animal (in 14 Movements), 2012, image: Andréhn-Schiptjenko |
Annika Larsson’s fourth exhibition at a gallery located in what Stockholm refers to as their “art palace” in Vasastan, ”Animal,” is a curious display focusing on the rapport between the human and animal from multiple angles: anthropological, psychological, theoretical, political—to name a few. More »
| Helen Broms Sandberg, Unlocking Passages, 2011, image: Kulturhuset |
A dual video projection displaying the fantastical world of Queen Christina Alexandra (1626-1689) as imagined by a confined writer who suffers from amnesia is coupled with an unhindered view into this same writer’s personal, imprisoned space. More »
| Laura Lima, Marra, 1996-2011, image: Olle Kirchmeier |
“The Spiral and the Square” is one exhibition, curated by Daniela Castro and Jochen Volz, which is part of a larger project initiated so as to approach the issues of translation and translatability of other places from a primarily Swedish perspective—beginning with a close-up on Brazilian culture. More »
| Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena, Black Madonnas, 2011, image: Nordin Gallery |
Far from neutral, the new works in Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena’s exhibition “YANKEE GO HOME! but please take me with you” favor extreme positions. More »
| Ragnar Persson, När Mörkret Faller, 2011, image: Gallery Steinsland Berliner |
In Ragnar Persson’s När Mörkret Faller/When Darkness Falls, 2011, the artist devises a roaming pack of wild dogs or wolves alongside an equally untamed coterie of human beings—long-haired, solitary, holding piercing gazes—in a northern forest populated with somewhat secretive animals: falcons, snakes and nocturnal creatures. More »
| Björn Kjelltoft, 2011, image: Gallery Niklas Belenius |
White, billowing curtains display seemingly banal yet biting phrases appropriated from a disheartened couple’s filmic encounter in their hotel room. More »
| Bryan Graf, Butterfly #2, 2008, image: Bryan Graf |
The repetition as it stands seems necessary, yet these images do not seem replaceable. So as to preserve a feeling or moment, people return to it and repeat to affirm its significance or exclusivity. Yet that which is cherished cannot be repeated. More »